2019 World IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship

Early Look: 2019 IBJJF No-Gi World Championships

We are just under a month away from the final major tournament of the year: the 2019 IBJJF No-Gi World Championships.

Nov 14, 2019 by Chase Smith

Early Look: 2019 IBJJF No-Gi World Championships

We are just under a month away from the final major tournament of the year: the 2019 IBJJF No-Gi World Championships.

Set to go down in Anaheim, California, on Dec. 12-15, the event has already netted a sizable competitors list that includes some of today’s top-ranked athletes.

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Light-feather is currently among the more stacked black belt divisions and features a bevy of exciting potential matchups. The fresh black belt Jonnas Andrade is set to mix it up with talented veterans, including Lucas Pinheiro, Renez Lopez, Hiago George, and Gabriel Souza, among others.

A few no-gi world champions have also thrown their names into the hat for this year's festivities, including Roberto "Cyborg" Abreu in at ultra-heavy, Otavio Sousa will fight middleweight, Samir Chantre is signed up as feather, and Marcio Andre is featured at Lightweight.

Marcio Andre.

Women's past champions already registered to compete include Karen Antunes, Mayssa Bastos, registered at Light and roosterweight, respectively. Other key competitors in the women's ranks included like Talita Alencar, Amanda Monteiro, Catherine Perret, Amanda Lowen, Thamara Ferreira, and Raquel Canuto.

Competitors List as of 11/14/19

BLACK / Adult / Male / Rooster

Ares BJJ	Taniel Santos de Jesus
PSLPB Cicero Costha	Thalison Vitorino Soares
Tri-Force Jiu-Jitsu Academy	Nobuhiro Sawada
Unity Jiu-jitsu	David B. Zennario
Total: 4

BLACK / Adult / Male / Light-Feather

Atos JJ USA	Lucas dos Santos Pinheiro
Brasa CTA	Rene Eduardo Lopez
PSLPB Cicero Costha	Francisco Jonas Borges Andrade
PSLPB Cicero Costha	Hiago George Santos Silva
Renato Tavares Association	Suraj Kumar Budhram
Werdum Combat Team France	Anthony Guy De Oliveira
ZR Team California	João Gabriel Batista de Sousa
Total: 7

BLACK / Adult / Male / Feather

Ares BJJ	Samir José Chantre Dahás
Fight Sports	Orlando Fernando Castillo Andaviza
Fight Sports International	Thomas James Halpin
GF Team	Israel de Sousa Almeida
Tinguinha BJJ Academy	Cole Thomas Franson
Unity Jiu-Jitsu Brasil	Thiago Aguiar Abud
Zenith BJJ	Emilio Alejandro Hernandez-Rodgriquez
Total: 7

BLACK / Adult / Male / Light

Absolute MMA Australia	Lachlan John Warne
Alliance Charlotte	Frederico Augusto Alves Silva
Alliance Marcelo Garcia	Athos Ribeiro de Miranda
Carpe Diem	Tomoshige Sera
Nova União	Marcio Andre da Costa Barbosa Junior
Open Mat Mixed Martial Arts	Daniel Seth Davis
Rodrigo Freitas Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu	Rodrigo Lamounier de Freitas
Zenith BJJ	Leonardo Domingos Costa Benedito
Total: 8

BLACK / Adult / Male / Middle

99 Nine Nine JJ - International	Sergio Raimundo Rios da Silva
GF Team Ohio	Robert G. Malof
Gracie Barra Huntington Beach	Otavio Ferreira de Sousa
Gracie Barra Nottingham	Oliver Johnathon Lovell
Pirâmide Grappling Association	Marco Aurellio de Queiroz
Unity Jiu-jitsu	Felipe Cesar Silva
Total: 6

BLACK / Adult / Male / Medium-Heavy

Alliance SP	Edson Antonio de Oliveira Filho
BARBOSA JIU-JITSU	Marcos Vinicius de Oliveira Martins
Hilti BJJ Turku	Jaakko Vilander
Total: 3

BLACK / Adult / Male / Heavy

American Top Team Junior Fernandes	Charles Kilyan Mcguire
Atos Jiu-Jitsu	Helton Jose Mendes da Silva Junior
CheckMat	Jackson Sousa dos Santos
Inglorious Grapplers	Max Leon Bickerton
Ralph Gracie	Nicholas Greene
Unity Jiu-jitsu	Devhonte M. Johnson
Total: 6

BLACK / Adult / Male / Super-Heavy

Checkmat Northridge	Arnaldo Maidana de Oliveira
Gracie Humaita International	Jan Victor Zander
Team Lloyd Irvin	Roberto Torralbas
Yemaso Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu	Eliot Andrew Kelly
Total: 4

BLACK / Adult / Male / Ultra-Heavy

Fight Sports	Roberto de Abreu Filho
Vinny Magalhaes BJJ	Vinicius de Magalhães
Total: 2

BLACK / Adult / Female / Rooster

GF Team	Mayssa Caldas Pereira Bastos
Gracie Barra New Mexico	Amber Rymarz-freitas
Total: 2

BLACK / Adult / Female / Light-Feather

Brazilian Top Team - ATX	Patrícia Magalhães Machado
GF Team	Amanda Monteiro Nogueira
Notorious Mixed Martial Arts	Fiona M. Watson
Total: 3

BLACK / Adult / Female / Feather

Absolute MMA Australia	Liwia Gluchowska
Alliance Los Angeles	Ana Talita de Oliveira Alencar
Atos Jiu-Jitsu	Heather H. Raftery
Atos JJ International	Georgina Contel Gallego
CheckMat	Gabriela Meireles Fechter
CheckMat USA	Karen Deisy Antunes Girotto Borges
Total: 6

BLACK / Adult / Female / Light

Brazil 021 International	Kristin Mikkelson
CheckMat USA	Catherine Fuhro Perret
Mako Team Paris	Veronica Macedo Fernandez
Total: 3

BLACK / Adult / Female / Middle

Barum Jiu-Jitsu	Anna Sophia Maria Nordenö
CheckMat	Raquel Dayne Kaleialoha Canuto
Gracie Humaita International	Hannah Katharina Rauch
SBG International (SBGI)	Amanda Loewen
Total: 4